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Prisoners Abroad tackling street homelessness and destitution

Prisoners Abroad have used a £15,000 ERSF grant to tackle street homelessness and destitution – helping ex-prisoners rebuild their lives. The principle aim of the grant was to prevent Britons returning from imprisonment oversseas becoming street homeless and destitute on return to the UK. “By meeting their immediate needs for food and housing we were [...]

Arunodaya SC Welfare Residential Public School Association

A £15,000 ERSF grant to the Arunodaya SC Welfare Residential Public School Association has been spent on skills training in tailoring and embroidery for 100 women from deprived rural areas.

ERSF in the Parsi Times

The Parsi Times January 2012 edition has featured the work of ERSF under the heading ‘Giving Without Prejudice’. The article highlights the work of the Foundation since its inception in 2005 and concludes by describing the organisation as “one without bias, professional and fair, one with great planning and even greater heart. Click here to [...]

PSYS skills education

Some £5,800 from ERSF to Praja Seva Yuvajana Sangam (PSYS) has been used to teach embroidery skills to the poor women and girls of a tribal community. The money helped purchase sewing and embroidery machines, raw materials for training, furniture, books and pay for electricity charges and an instructor. PSYS Director Mr Shanmugam said: “The [...]

Build a School

Tickbird Visitor Centre in Malawi – for the training of farmers and a women’s co-operative in fair trade crops – received a £10,000 boost thanks to the ERSF. The grant was made to the organisation Build A School which is in the initial stages of forming the Fairtrade eesential oil co-operative and is training 10 [...]